The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-28
ANOTHER MASS MEETING.
The Dry Benchers to Meet on the
Last Day of August.
rothe Editor Of TIE HERALD.

Tothe Editor Of TIE HERALD.
We, the inhabitants Of the well known
dry benches have really been patched
up little by the City Council granting
our horses, COWS and dogs some troughs
and spills, where suffering humanity
can approach and get drink and carry
some home and wash ourselves little,
fayors than kfully received.n 1 suppose
ali has been said that need be about
this relief. The dry bench is still dry
however; we do not get water, yet we
want it to run down bill here quite as
much as Main Street does. Our lots are
not farming lands; far from it; we do
not pretend to raise our winter bread
stuff and roots, as many do throughout
the limits of this city but we DO want to
raise some bushes and trees for sum INNER
use and shadeCand to that end have
planted and packed water to them until
now they give us some comfort in sum-
mer. We also have some grape vines
that we have nourished with gre at care
and labor, and now have suchia limited
supply of water that they are dying In
great numbers, and 5000 the place will
be as bad for shade and comfort as it
ever was. Many complaints come to
me about the loss of such property, and
can see my own as well as the others
drying up. a8
And, Notwithstanding the meagre
supplylof water is such that vegetation
cannot live here, unless we have more
water, the inhabitants of the lower
wards and .tbelow the canal, are cry
i,.g out because we have very little.
We are not so unjust as to be-
lieve that any power on earth
can give what it has not got,
but we know that if it were not for the
undue prejudice against us, and the
very many misrepresentation which
have been made against us. we could be
relieved as well as not. Where is the
canal which was constructed to bring to
this city an increase OF water supply ?
Brought along on the grade where 1t
would have reached Sixth Street, but
outside of the city thrown down in
cascade to form mill power and the
land purchased by the City Fathers to
establish mill sites, while we were asking
for help, and contending for that which
was promised us when our votes were
required in order to obtain the loan OF
$3.50, 900. And how much confidence can
we have in men who have time and again
ignored US, and even now will treat Or
with either silent contempt insolence
But when we complain of the injustice
to us which has been so hard to bear
for so many years, and demand our
equal rights with other citizens, the
cry gcomes from the City Hall, they
(meaning the injured ones) have in
suite d the Council" We feel now like
doing something else with the CopnCil.
We will see If it is legal to discriminate
between citizens. While our near
neighbors have large rolling streams of
water for four hours running on their
lots so they can grow what they like
and make their homes appear
beautiful, we, only separated by
their ditch, have to be parched
up and everything green go to
ruin. Our taxes are the same as below
this ditch. Our franchise is as good as
below this ditch. We fill as much of
our meeting house as below this ditch;
butw have no rights, as below this ditch
our water supply is not 1,0O0th part so
much. Our streets are as nature and its
storms have made them, full of ruts and
gullies No one knows of any improve
ment on any street for very many years,
and most all of them none at all.
We have no beautiful crystal streams
such as are pointed out to visitors to our
city. The line Of demarkation is
very plainly drawn from Prospect
get sight of the beautiful city. They
enquire what is the cause, and have been
quickly told they have no water. What
ID there to hinder the Council from ex-
tending branch of the canal along as
high as it will go? What is there to
hinder the higher streams from being
turned this way? Why give the water
which should have been turned to re-
ieve us to farming land lately broken
up and for the manufacture of brick
Ten times what they want is turned
down while we perish for want. Il now
call mass meeting of the Dry BencheIs
to be held I'm the Twentieth Ward
schoolhouse on Wednesday evening,
August 3lst,at 1850 clock sharp, to take
such steps as may seem good in order
to procure our equal rightsias citizens,
and for other business and request of
the. fyictims of Injustice, to rally up
Come. one, come all, and wisely, calmly
and determinedly strike for equal rights
with other citizens. butfnot,w with the in
tention of wronging lotherss We want
our rights, not the rights of others, and
will not sit down supinely and allow
Others who ought to have no more than
us, .'every thing calmly taken into con-
sheraton, ~ any longer to plant their
feet, on our neck five can help it.
Ladies are respectfully Invited to take
part il, our mass meeting fheyl are
felfow sufferers with us, and our rights
and theirs are Identical. I Let the last
day of August, 1887, be Temem bered by
us as the !, day when We determined
upon liberty and equal rights for us
and for our heirs forever. ii l9 ri
Respectfully;
FREDERICK CULVER,
-.f' .r.5..,tr Chairman